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• Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
  Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Sweet, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]

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• Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
  Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
  Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
  That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Grace, Honor

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• ...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Powerful, Hatred, Important

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• It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.

  Roger Clemens

  New York, Taken, Home

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• Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

  Vali Myers

  Heart, Dark, Animal

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• The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Cutting, Umbria, White

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 1,

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• Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Fall, Mean

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 4,

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• Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Book, America

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

  E. M. Forster

  Mother, Tired, Dark

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• Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Native American, Land, Ghost

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8205, Delphi Classics

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• The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, White Man, America

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Law, And Love, Teeth

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 56

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• She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Dancing, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Nightingale and the Rose”, p.3, Booklassic

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• One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.

  Peter Agre

  Motivation, Cells, Blood

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• To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Rain, Book

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

  Daniel Levitin

  Color, Add, Lexicon

  Daniel J. Levitin (2014). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.41, Penguin

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• No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.

  Carrie Nation

  Beer, Men, Devil

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• The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

  P. W. Botha

  World, Want, Hunger

  "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 90), 1994.

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• White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

  Theophile Gautier

  Men, White, Moral

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• The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.

  Tulku Thondup

  Light, Air, Blue

  Tulku Thondup (2001). “Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."

  Malvina Reynolds

  Class, Done, Good Times

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• We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Independent, Responsibility, Self

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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